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Editor´s Note

Variety issue - Reaching future members of religious communities—one at a time

By Carol Schuck Scheiber

My husband used to speak in churches on behalf of a lay mission group. “When I do this,” he once told me, “I never know how interested the people are. Read more...

What does it take to attract and sustain new members to religious communities?

In my years as executive director of NRVC, there are two questions that I’m asked most often. What signs of hope do you see regarding the future of religious life? And which communities are attracting new members? This article will attempt to answer the second question, and in doing so may shed some light on the first one as well. Read more...

What has happened since the FORUS study gave religious life 10 years to make life-saving changes?

A year-eight report

By Miriam D. Ukeritis C.S.J.

When David Nygren, CM and I published the study, “Future of Religious Orders in the United States” (FORUS) in 1992, we suggested that religious congregations had a 10-year window to make changes needed to ensure their viability. Failure to do so would likely set them on a path of irreversible decline. Read more...

The essential facts about secular institute vocations

By Patricia L. Skarda

If you don’t know what a secular institute is, you’re not alone. But when you learn of this, the newest and perhaps the fastest growing vocation worldwide in the church today, you may look at members of secular institutes with a kind of holy envy. Read more...

Peer supervision: path to self-awareness in vocation ministry

HORIZON interviews Helen Cahill, OP

Because vocation ministers are engaged in companioning other people, they need others to companion them in their ministry. Peer supervision is one such avenue for them, for it allows vocation ministers to explore their personal experience and to name the interior movements that take place within them as they companion another. Read more...

How one community started building bridges to young adults

By Sisters of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception

The authors of this article found the Convocation 2000 content on “Building bridges to Young Adults” so helpful that they decided to bring it home to their congregation and put it to work. The Sisters of St. Read more...

Who are today’s young adult Catholics?

Four-year study provides a rich portrait

By Sister Mary Johnson S.N.D. de N., Dean Hoge, William Dinges, and Juan Gonzalez Jr.

Young adult Catholics are different from previous generations. Vocation ministers know that more than most, and they’re constantly working to better understand the young people with whom they spend their days and evenings. Read more...

Index of 2000-2001 HORIZON

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Short-term volunteer stints have proven to be a good way for Sister Jenny Wilson, R.S.M. to get to know women who might consider religious life. Building a relationship with people is key, she says, and the volunteer experience allows time for that. Read more...

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